The tycoon bride

Chapter five

     Maybe he saw it coming. Maybe he was already walking over to where she stood without her being aware that he'd moved. Whatever, as she felt herself going, as the blood slowly drained away from her head and her leg began to go limp, a pair of arms came securely around her, and the last thing she remembers was hearing the distinctive rail of an ambulance siren as she slumped heavily against him. 

       After that everything became a bit hazy, and she didn't really start making sense of what was happening to her until she was travelling in the ambulance —accomplished by none other than her aunt boss who was cradling Melanie. 

        But no Aunt Laura.

          "she will be joining us later, " the man replied to her unspoken question "she needed to attend some urgent business. "

           Frowning at him through huge, pain–bruised blue eyes, she wondered why he wasn't taking care of his own urgent business. But there arrival at the hospital forestalled any more conversations between them when she was taken away to be examined and x–rated. 

            Her rib, she discovered, were only bruised, but her wrist was a different matter. A broken scaphoid, the doctor called it, and they would have to put her out briefly to reset it. 

            "What about Melanie? "she fretted as the pre–med they had given her began to send brain fuzzy "How am I going to cope with my wrist in plaster? Where is aunt Laura? "

            "If you want your aunt here, then I will get her here, "a deep voice that was starting to sound very familiar quietly promised. She had expected him to melt away once they reached the hospital, but to her surprise he had stayed with her the whole time. 

             "No, "she sighed in shaky refusal, shifting restlessly where she lay because he didn't understand,. It wasn't that where she wanted her aunt—she just needed to know where she was and what she was doing because she didn't trust her not to take matters into her own hands where Melanie was concerned, while she was in no fit state to stop her. 

            "Don't let her take her away from me" she mumbled slurredly. 

             "I won't, " the voice promise. 

             That was the last thing she remembers for the next hour or so, so she had no idea that he continued to stand there beside her bed grimly watching over her until they came to wheel her away.